Thanks dynachrome.
Posted on 03/24/2021 6:02:27 PM PDT by dynachrome
I teared up a few times watching “They Shall Not Grow Old”.
What brings a tear to my eyes is knowing all of these fallen patriots died and we ended up with communism anyway.
I can’t disagree with you there.
I live in a state where I have no representation, and no prospect of it, and they use my taxes for things like this, and have for decades.
Yes. I am worried about human life.
And all the black soldiers who fought and died for the US, only to come back home to the most racist President we ever had, in Woodrow Wilson, and set back race relations for decades.
It wiped out a generation of men in France. There was a great novel “Once An Eagle” about a soldier who got in after the Spanish-American war and served into Vietnam.
Great writing, and in one passage he talks about France after the war when there were no adult French men around, and women from childbearing age through elderly grandmother stage were all dressed in black.
Inter-War France was a train wreck, it’s no wonder it was such easy pickings for Hitler.
The Last Day of World War One is a BBC documentary by Michael Palin of Monty Python. He had a relative who died on the last day of the war and he wanted to find out what happened. Epic stupidity on display The armistice was signed and would go into effect at 11 am. Both sides new it and yet orders were given for early morning attacks. It is worth the watch.
Both sides knew it.
Strange times, too.
Germany was a debauched place after the war and into the Roaring Twenties.
Strange times.
LOL.
Just resize the breech and screw on a new barrel.
well Nazi memorabilia is a big seller.
That’s a great movie. I hope you stayed past the credits for the Peter Jackson interview, it was interesting.
All wars are stupid and sad.
But some are necessary. Mostly not.
World War 1 was started and led by people who didn’t think they had to worry about getting killed. Generals didn’t lead charges out of the trenches.
World War 2 was not like that. Everyone had to worry except places like the Americas and parts of Africa.
Thanks dynachrome.
as well as unexploded shells - left in a heap...............................
Franco-Prussian War of 1872 that unified Germany.
(I was posting on the phone and it has a weird auto complete and a small screen)
I feel no sympathy for the Germans...as I'm sure the French didn't either.
LOL, now THAT’S funny, to see that. So I agree with someone, or they agree with me!
On a related note, there was a description of The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, in which the IJN force of a battleship, cruisers, and destroyers, had split up into two columns, and coming towards them to go between the two columns was an somewhat inferior column of American cruisers and destroyers.
Forces were so close and intermingled in those black hours just after midnight, that an American destroyer nearly collided with an IJN battleship, and the destroyer was so close it was just pumping five inch rounds as fast as they could fire, and they saw them leave the muzzle and immediately disappear into the superstructure of the Kirishima, and the superstructure began to glow cherry red from the fires within.
It was described as a “Bar Room Brawl with the lights turned out”, but one sailor said that someone kept turning on the lights for a second as big guns fired on each side so you could get a glimpse of who was where, then the lights went immediately out.
Chaos.
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